Despite its understudy status compared with Apple?s iPhone and the many Google Android smartphones, the Windows Phone mobile operating system comes across as fresh.

Written by

Edward C. Baig
USA Today

Maybe it was inevitable that Windows Phone 8 devices would land in the back of the chorus line.

Windows 8 and the hoopla around it have hogged the spotlight in recent weeks. Now the departure of Windows President Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft is front and center.

But I do hope Windows Phones get something closer to star treatment. There's a lot to cheer about in these latest devices. And despite its understudy status compared with Apple's iPhone and the many Google Android smartphones, the Windows Phone mobile operating system comes across as fresh. ...